Summarizing and Note Taking

According to Marzano, et al, teaching students to take notes and summarize effectively will result in the second highest gains in student achievement. Effective note taking and summarizing allows students to transfer learning and retain knowledge.

Presentation Materials from ETS Certification

Summarizing PowerPoint - Click on this link for a PowerPoint presentation created by a cooperative group for the ETS Certification training on 12/6-12/8/10: ETS summarizing.ppt
Bio-Cube: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/cube-30057.html
Summarizing Using the GIST Template: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/gist-summarizing-strategy-content-290.html
Inner Voice Sheet for Notetaking: http://www.oregonread.org/conf_handouts_06/InnerVoice_Tovani.pdf
Jane Cook's Notes from ETS Certification Training: Jane Cook Notes from ETS Certification Training 12-6 through 12-8-10 revised 12-8-10.doc

Web-based Resources on Summarizing

Click on the links below to find resources related to the Summarizing and Notetaking Effective Teaching Strategies:

Book Report Alternative: Summary, Symbol and Analysis in Bookmarks - This lesson plan from ReadWriteThink.org will help you and your students look at book reports in a different way.
How Twitter Makes You a Better Writer - Visit this blog post to see how Twitter can help you learn to summarize and be concise in your writing.
Six Word Memoirs at SMITH Magizine - According to the SMITH Magazine Web site: "Legend has it that Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Starting in 2006, SMITH Magazine re-ignited the recountre by asking our readers for their own six-word memoirs. They sent in short life stories in droves, from the bittersweet (“Cursed with cancer, blessed with friends”) and poignant (“I still make coffee for two”) to the inspirational (“Business school? Bah! Pop music? Hurrah”) and hilarious (“I like big butts, can’t lie”)."
Summarization Techniques - This Web site has links to a variety of resources including techniques and graphic organizers for summarizing and notetaking.
Summarizing and Notetaking - This Web site contains key research findings and links to classroom examples of summarizing and notetaking.
Summarizing with Alphaboxes - This is a link to a page on this Wiki with a lesson plan developed by Jane Cook using Alphaboxes as a strategy to teach summarizing.
Text Rendering Protocol - This protocol from the National School Reform Faculty at the Harmony Education Center helps a group collaboratively summarize and make meaning of a passage of text.
Thinking Allowed: Math Students Explain Problem-Solving Out Loud as They Talk Through Their Thinkiing - This Web site contains a think aloud lesson to help students summarize and retain their learning in Math.

Web-Based Resources on Note Taking

Click on the links below for resources related to notetaking:

Notetaking in the Primary Grades: http://kbgtie543.blogspot.com/2010/03/note-taking-in-primary.html

Graphic Organizers for Note Taking

Two Cornell Notes Templates follow: The elementary template for the lower grades was presented earlier in the school year during ELA Writers' Workshop Professional Development.

Cornell Notes Template_Elementary.docx

Cornell Notes Template.doc